Election Debate Visualisation

Monthly Archives: May 2014

A new proposal for a pre-election debate is promising. The idea of bringing readers of the Guardian and the Telegraph together has considerable deliberative potential. The EDV project could contribute to such a debate in interesting ways. Watch this space…

Some of the analyses and visualisations that we aim at including as enhancements to the debate viewing experience are already available to viewers. In a previous post, we referred to Demos‘s analysis of tweets in terms of the personality and politics of the Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage in the second EU debate. As another example, Blurrt performed real-time sentiment […]

As the BBC reports, it seems that the politicians are thinking about having three televised debates in the run-up to the next general election: one between the Conservative and Labour leaders; a second with the Labour, Liberal Democrats and Conservative leaders; and a third including the UKIP and Green Party leaders. Why not? The more […]